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Re: Choose Font


  • Subject: Re: Choose Font
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:21:53 -0500

On Mar 30, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Mar 30, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

I needed a way for a user to set fontName and fontSize preferences in a script. Many applications have a font dialog to do this and they all look very similar. Have I overlooked such a dialog in the StandardAdditions osax? So I looked ... it's not there!

Standard Editions can create plain text files (including tab delimited, lists, records, etc.), but not styled text. If you need to script name and size, you'll have to do it through an application. TextEdit is a good one for this purpose.

No. All I need is a way to get a properly spelled name of a font and a size. Then I use this to set a document window in Smile or Script Editor. My current workaround is to let the user type the name of a font. Script Editor has a fatal problem if the font is not spelled correctly. (Smile simply punts and uses Lucida Grande!)


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